Negative about Gardens of Life Products

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I've tried quite a few of the Gardens of Life products, and had major

problems with all of the ones I've tried. In fact, Primal Defense made me

much worse. I'm under the care of a naturopath, and she told me that of her

patients that have tried Gardens of Life products, quite a few have not been

able to tolerate them, especially the Primal Defense.

 

I have a lot of respect for my naturopath, because she got her doctorate in

Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr University in Seattle, WA, and was

previously the managing editor of the Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, a

past-president of the Colorado Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and

has served on the Board of Directors for the American Association of

Naturopathic Physicians. She wouldn't have been able to serve in those

positions if she didn't have the esteem of her colleagues. She knows

biochemistry better than any of the dozens of doctors that I've been to over

the years. So I put a lot of confidence in what she tells me. And she's

rather negative about the Gardens of Life products.

 

I'm on several e-mail lists with chronically ill people, and occasionally

there will be people who post about their bad experiences with Gardens of

Life products. So all in all, I've heard a lot more negative about their

products than positive. (I have heard of people who had positive results,

but just not very often in the e-mail groups that I circulate in.)

 

I've also read Jordan Rubin's book " Patient Heal Thyself " and I'm a little

bit bothered by some of the unsupported assertions that he makes about the

cause of some of the disorders that are in the book, which go against the

research that I've read on those disorders and the personal experiences of

the many people I've conversed with via e-mail with those disorders. I've

spent the last few years doing a lot of in-depth reading on some specific

disorders that I have that are written about in his book. There is a lot of

misinformation going around that is not supported by research, and he is

passing on some of that misinformation. He didn't post references in support

of those assertions to be able to check into it myself, so I have nothing to

go on to understand where he gets his information from. But from my

perspective, and the research that I've read, it sounds like he's writing

about things he doesn't really understand, and trying to sound like an

expert in it, but is unable to support his assertions with references to

research in support of it. It's almost as though he is avoiding the research

that would interfere with his promotion of his products. That's just my

opinion.

 

I'm sure that there are many people who really do benefit from his products,

or his company wouldn't be so successful. But I think that there needs to be

a certain degree of caution whenever something begins to be promoted as a

panacea.

 

Linda Jones

lindaj

 

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" Beth " <beth

 

Sunday, May 11, 2003 6:55 PM

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Please do some research on it and also maybe someone else on this board can

comment on the products. I've yet to here anything negative about them.

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> According to the Garden Of Life website: